ACM CHI 1995 - Exploring large tables with the Table lens

The Table lens is a new technique for visualizing and making sense of large tables. By fusing symbolic and graphical representations into a single manipulable focuse+context display and providing a small set of interactive operations, the table lens supports navigating around a large data space easily isolating and investigating interesting features and patterns. This high-bandwidth interactivity enables and extremely powerful style of direct manipulation exploratory data analysis.